WO2000002130A2 - Plural image display reading image data from a memory - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N5/44—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards
- H04N5/445—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards for displaying additional information
- H04N5/45—Picture in picture, e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
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- G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
- G09G5/14—Display of multiple viewports
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- G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
- G09G5/36—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
- G09G5/39—Control of the bit-mapped memory
- G09G5/395—Arrangements specially adapted for transferring the contents of the bit-mapped memory to the screen
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- G09G2340/12—Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
- G09G2340/125—Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels wherein one of the images is motion video
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
- H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
- H04N21/4312—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
- H04N21/4316—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
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- H04N5/907—Television signal recording using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories
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- the invention relates to plural image display, such as picture-in-picture (PIP) or double-window display.
- PIP picture-in-picture
- POP double-window display
- US-A-5,369,442 discloses a method for picture-in-picture insertion, and a device for performing the method, in which successive frames of a small picture to be inserted into a main picture having successive frames are alternatingly written frame-wise into a memory region of a memory device.
- a decision signal is generated at a beginning of a display of the main picture, for deciding from which of the two memory regions a stored frame of the small picture is to be read out.
- Frames of the small picture are read out from whichever memory region enables joint-line-free insertion of the small picture into the main picture.
- one live video signal is inserted in another live video signal.
- the two video signals are independent of each other and therefore can differ in frequency (field repetition rate). This means that one of the signals has to be synchronized to the other (on field base).
- the minimum amount of memory for the synchronizing circuit is one field. However, if only one field can be stored in memory, an artifact in the resulting video signal will occur which is referred to as 'joint line error'.
- a joint line error occurs if an outgoing field is build up of two subsequent input fields and is caused by the read and write pointers of the field memory crossing each other.
- the standard approach in PIP applications to prevent a joint line error is to store two subsequent fields in memory and choosing to read the field which is not currently been written. In this way the write pointer never crosses the read pointer and no joint line error will occur.
- the drawback is that it requires twice the amount of memory.
- a first aspect of the invention provides a memory control method and device as defined by claims 1 and 2.
- a second aspect of the invention provides a display apparatus for displaying at least two images as defined by claim 3.
- write and read speeds of writing image data into and reading image data from the memory are measured to predict a crossing where a write action overtakes a read action or reversely, where a new field of said image data is written into the memory from a same initial position as from which a previous field of the image data was written into the memory if no crossing is predicted, and the new field of said image data is written from an end position in the memory at which an end of the previous field of the image data was written into the memory if a crossing is indeed predicted, the memory having a size being larger than that needed for one field but less than that needed for two fields of the image data at its largest read-out size.
- the read-out size is the size of a PLP image, while if the method is used for (both PIP and) double-window display, the largest read-out size is that of the left-hand or right-hand half of the double-window display.
- Fig. 1A shows the joint line or cross-over artifact
- Fig. IB illustrates how the joint line artifact is solved in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of a memory control in accordance with the present invention.
- each of the channels may have a deviation of plus or minus 2% in the input line frequency, so that the maximum deviation between the two channels is 4%.
- the 2% is derived from the specifications of a typical video recorder.
- control logic described below may result in false detections of a crossing where there is none.
- some additional margin in the field memory size is required. If for this additional margin another 4% is taken into account, the total size of the required memory becomes 8% more than a standard field memory. This derivation of the additional size required shows that the actual size chosen heavily depends on the properties of the chosen implementation.
- the amount ReqAdMem of additionally required memory can be expressed as follows:
- ReqAdMem MemF* ⁇ + k) ⁇ if the invention is applied in a television set which has (both the PIP feature and) the double window feature, so that the double window feature determines the amount of additionally required memory, and
- MemF is the size of the memory necessary to store one field of the left-hand or right-hand half of the double window
- MemPIP is the size of the memory required to store a PIP-field
- fHadd is the line frequency of the additional channel
- fHmain is the line frequency of the main channel
- the max-function is there to take fluctuations into account
- cf is the vertical compression factor applied to PIP images
- k is the extra amount of memory required to take false crossing detections into account.
- Fig. 1A shows the joint line or cross-over artifact.
- the interrupted lines indicate the memory write pointer WP, while the uninterrupted lines indicate the memory read pointer RP.
- the arrow JLE indicates the crossing joint line error, where the write pointer WP crosses the read pointer RP.
- the memory has an original memory size MSo.
- the write and read speeds are measured for predicting a crossing.
- the write speed is related to the frequency of the horizontal synchronization frequency Hsync acq of the incoming video signal
- the read speed is related to the horizontal synchronization frequency Hsync ⁇ s of the other incoming video signal which is locked to the outgoing video signal.
- a counter counts upwards on pulses Hsync acq of the first signal and downwards on pulses Hsync dis of the other signal.
- the counter contains the difference in write and read speed expressed in number of lines per field. With this value and the location of the read pointer RP, it can be predicted just before the start of writing a new field whether a crossing will occur or not. If a crossing is predicted, the new field will be written just after the last line of the previous written field, and if not, the new field will be written at the same place where the last field was written. This means that if a crossing is predicted, a slightly larger memory (new memory size MSn) is required than in the other case (old memory size MSo). This is illustrated in Fig. IB. An embodiment of a memory control device for putting this into effect is shown in Fig. 2.
- this block 1 is a horizontal reduction block which compresses the data until half the horizontal size (other factors are also possible).
- the pixel data is formatted by a memory formatter (MEM Form) 3 into a format such that it can be written into a field memory 5.
- MEM Form memory formatter
- the pixel data is read from the field memory 5 and deformatted by a memory deformatter (Mem Deform) 7 in such a manner that it can be outputted to an output processor OP of the device.
- pixel data at acquisition side A is accompanied by H and V synchronization signals Hsync acq and Vsync acq .
- the signal acq_window indicates the vertical acquisition window of a field.
- the block (Diff) 9 determines the difference in frequencies between the acquisition and display channel. This is done by incrementing a counter on acquisition pulses Hsync acq and decrementing the same counter on display pulses Hsync ⁇ ,..
- the counter is running only when acq_window is high. On a falling edge of acq_window, the counter outputs its value which is diff ines.
- the crossing detector block (Cros Det) 11 predicts if the memory write pointer will cross the memory read pointer in the next field. This prediction is performed at the start of each acquisition field. For the prediction, the crossing detector 9 requires the input signals diffjines, the display position DP, the memory read pointer RP, the number of lines per acquisition field noflines/f ⁇ eld acq and the number of lines per display field noflines/field ⁇ which not necessarily have to be identical).
- the memory write controller (MemWC) 13 generates the write start addresses WA for the video fields. The write start address WA is initialized at zero. If no crossing is predicted, the start address is the same as the start address of the previous written field.
- the start address WA is the address of the last written pixel, incremented by one.
- the memory write controller 13 takes care for the transfer of the start address to the read controller (MemRC) 15. The time of the transfer of this address is very critical.
- the memory read controller 15 generates the read address RA for the display processor. The address is copied from the write controller 13. Furthermore, the read controller 15 provides the read pointer RP which is necessary for prediction of the crossing.
- the output of the memory deformatter 7 is coupled to the output processor (OP) 17 thru a multiplexer (MUX) 19.
- the output processor 17 includes a display driver.
- the multiplexer 19 switches between the output of the memory deformatter 7 (which supplies a first half of the double window display) and the output of a second channel (II) 21 (which provides the other half of the double window display).
- the second channel 21 could comprise elements similar to those shown in Fig. 2.
- the second channel preferably only comprises a horizontal compression circuit (similar to the horizontal reduction block 1) including a line memory.
- the multiplexer 19 switches between the output of the memory deformatter 7 and an output of a main channel (M) 23. If neither PIP nor double window is active, the output of the main channel 23 is connected to the output processor 17, preferably directly to the display driver part of the output processor 17. A display D is coupled to an output of the output processor 17.
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